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Our research considers the determinants and effectiveness of educational investments across the lifecycle, from early childcare and pre-school education, through to primary and secondary schools, post-compulsory schooling, higher education and adult learning.
Our overarching aim is to understand the relative effectiveness of different policy interventions aimed at promoting human capital investment. To this end, we have a wide range of research and policy evaluation projects underway. Search
Erich Battistin, Raffale Miniaci and Guglielmo Weber
In this paper a rich and innovative dataset, the International Adult Literacy Survey, is used to examine the impact of functional literacy on earnings.
Kevin Denny, Colm Harmon and Sandra Redmond
In this paper a rich and innovative dataset, the International Adult Literacy Survey, is used to examine the impact of functional literacy on earnings.
Kevin Denny and Colm Harmon
This paper uses pooled cross-section data on recent school leavers in Ireland to model the determinants of labour market status and wages for young adults.
Kevin Denny and Colm Harmon
This paper uses pooled cross-section data on recent school leavers in Ireland to model the determinants of labour market status and wages for young adults.
This paper exploits an unusual policy reform that had the effect of reducing the direct cost of schooling in Ireland in the late 1960s.
Kevin Denny and Colm Harmon
This paper analyses levels of low literacy across twelve countries using the International Adult Literacy Survey.
John Van Reenen
There is a vast empirical literature of the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity.
We use British birth cohort panel data to examine the impact that degree level qualifications and other higher education qualifications have on the earnings of individuals in the medium to longer term.
Howard Reed, Lorraine Dearden and John Van Reenan
Howard Reed, Lorraine Dearden and John Van Reenan
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